Biological Thinking

Oh, nandina, nandina, you trouble my heart!  You are so beautiful all winter with your green foliage and bright red berries, but you are an ...

There is a surprising diversity of animal life in Lincoln Park, and that's not even counting the zoo animals.  The latest residents of...

Today I watched a leopard pace in its tiny cage.  Male leopards are used to 30 square miles of home range, and this one was lucky to have 30...

The Lincoln Park Zoo is on my daily walking route now.  It's free and open to the public, and I can power walk right through or linger a...

The stability of any ecosystem depends on having a multitude of species playing different roles in that ecosystem.  Some are producers, some...